Word: attics
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...arrived in Sparta I said, 'Show me Sparta.' There wasn't any. The Eurotas rolled by, a pretty, limpid stream, but about as wide as this piece of furniture. In the museum, which is about as large as this room, there are a statue and a vase, both Attic. They're all that Sparta has left. I expected to find a countryside as dour as [the ancient Spartans], but no ?great fertility, vines bearing enormous grapes. And I crossed the Taigeta, which is something of a mountain, I assure you, and arrived at a place called something like 'Coryza...
...inspection of The Beeches. At first Mrs. Comey refused them entrance. Mrs. Coolidge explained: "Really, it's Mrs. Comey's home still." Later Mrs. Comey relented, led 14 newsmen through the house, let them gape at the wine cellar in the basement, the billiard room in the attic, the sweeping outlook across meadowlands to Mount Holyoke and Mount Tom. The press inspectors rode up and down in the self-operating house elevator, stared speculatively at the outdoor swimming pool and tennis court, strolled through the ivory-tinted living room, the pinkish dining room, the bedroom suites...
...Translations into Greek and Latin CA. A prize of $75 for a translation into Attic Greek of the passage in Lowes Dickinson's The Greek View of Life. Chapter 1. paragraph 4. beginning. "But this relation to the world," through the words, "to have been in constitution." (B) A prize of $75 for a translation into Latin of a portion of the fifth chapter of E. E. Sikes's Roman Poetry, beginning with the words. "The rival creed of Epicurus," through the words, "physicist of Agrigentum...
...Modern dormitories and fraternity houses. (Too pleasant, too easy for living, too comfortable; they should be of the bleak-attic type, well-roached, wide-cracked, simple...
...most phenomenally successful of any magazine issued before the Civil war was the prim Godey's Lady's Book. On many a U. S. attic shelf, dust-covered copies still remain. Recently a passing decorating fancy has gutted them of their faded fashion plates, which are used to lend a touch of quaintness to boudoir walls, breakfast trays and lampshades...